Lublin, Poland: Death Incidents Register
November 1941 and January 1942

Introduction by Robinn Magid

This database includes information from 681 death incident
reports from Lublin in November 1941 and January 1942.

Background

During World War II, the German occupiers of Lublin required the
municipality to prepare a supplementary “Death Incident Report”,
in addition to issuing official death certificates for the Lublin deaths
during some period of the war.
There were three groups of these death incidents reports which survive,
and are maintained by the Polish State Archives banch in Lublin.
The first and third files contain a portion of Jewish deaths in the
city (ghetto) during the months of November 1941 and January 1942,
respectively.
The second file apparently covers 61 non-Jewish deaths in the city
for the month of December, 1941.

Contemporary Lublin historians believe that the ultimate purpose
of the death incident report was to provide information to the German
occupiers about private property, in order to plan the confiscation of
property of dead citizens. It is not known why the report includes
only selections from the official death register and not the entire
month’s registration. It is also not clear why the first and
third file includes only Jews, but the second file includes only
non-Jewish Poles. However, the death incident reports provide
additional information about the life and family makeup of these Shoah
victims at the time of their deaths which are sure to aid the family
researcher.

Database

This database includes records from the death incidents registers
between November 1941 and January 1942.
There are 252 deaths included in the November report, and another
429 deaths included in the January report.
Because it may have taken a few days to register the deaths, there
are incidents in these reports from October and December 1941,
in addition to the deaths that occurred the same month as the
registration date. These registers appears to be only a
portion of all the deaths recorded in the city during that time and
the certificate numbers (akt) appear to accurately reflect the municipal
death registration numbers issued during that time period.

The fields for this database are as follows:

Name (Surname + Given Name)

Maiden Name (for widows and unmarried women)

Number (sequential entry number)

Death Record Number —
corresponds to official death register's Akt (record) number.

Last Permanent Address

Place of Death — Address

Date of Death

Age

Civil Status (See Note 1 below)

Profession / Comments

Note 1: Civil Status.
The table below gives the Polish-to-English translations of the
"civil status" information from the original source document.

Polish

English

kawaler

bachelor

małżonka

spouse

maz, małżonek

husband

nie wiadomo, nieznany

unknown

nie zamezna

unmarried

panna

miss, unmarried woman

rozwiedziony

divorced

samotny

single

urodzony

born

wdowa

widow

wdowiec

widower

żona

wife

zonaty / zamezna

married

Acknowledgments

The City of Lublin Death Incidents Reports can be found in the
Lublin Judenrat files which are housed at the Lublin branch of the
Polish State Archives (AP).
The file is labeled “Sygnatura 289 and 291”.
The United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum (USHMM) has a copy of all this material in Washington,
D.C. It is catalogued as RG-15.075M.
The index at USHMM lists a third file labeled “Sygnatura 290”,
which was never supplied to USHMM by Lublin.
We are told it contains 61 non-Jewish deaths occurring during the month
of December 1941. The actual death registration referred to by
number in this report is maintained by the City of Lublin at their
Civil Registry Office (USC) in Lublin.

Edward Mitelsbach, a JewishGen volunteer, performed the data entry
portion for this project. Robinn Magid proofread the data.
Thank you to Tadeusz Przystojecki of TeatrNN in Lublin, Poland for
supplying the English translations of the column headings, and for
providing historical context. Special thanks to Peter Landé
for obtaining photos of the files through the US Holocaust Memorial
Museum.

In addition, thanks to JewishGen Inc. for providing the website
and database expertise to make this database accessible.
Special thanks to Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias for their
continued contributions to Jewish genealogy. Particular
thanks to Nolan Altman, coordinator of Holocaust files.